in fabulous history, the wife of Cadmus, both of whom were turned into serpents. See CADMUS.

Though many of the ancient authors make Harmonia a princess of divine origin, there is a passage in Athenaeus from Euhemerus, the Vanini of his time, which tells us, that she was by profession a player on the flute, and in the service of the prince of Zidon previous to her departure with Cadmus. This circumstance, however, might encourage the belief, that as Cadmus brought letters into Greece, his wife brought harmony thither; as the word ἀρμονία, harmonia, has been said to have no other derivation than from her name: which makes it very difficult to ascertain the sense in which the Greeks made use of it in their music *; for it has no roots by which it can be decom.* See Harmony. The common account of the word, however, that is given by lexicographers, and generally adopted by Harmonia the learned, does not confirm this opinion. It is generally derived from \( \alpha \gamma \omega \nu \), and this from the old verb \( \alpha \gamma \omega \), apto, to fit or join.